The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom

Eric Racine

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MIT Press
13 May 2025

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From a leading ethicist, a workable and inspiring model of ethics, showing not only why ethics matters but also how it can be used to improve human welfare.

From a leading ethicist, a workable and inspiring model of ethics, showing not only why ethics matters but also how it can be used to improve human welfare.

Humanity faces a multitude of profound challenges at present- technological advances, environmental changes, rising inequality, and deep social and political pluralism. These transformations raise moral questions-questions about how we view ourselves and how we ought to engage with the world in the pursuit of human flourishing. In The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom, Eric Racine puts forward an original interdisciplinary ethics theory that offers both an explanation of the workings of human morality and a model for deliberation-based imaginative processes to tackle moral problems.

Drawing from a wide array of disciplines such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, political science, neuroscience, and economics, this book offers an engaging account of situated moral agency and of ethical life as the pursuit of human flourishing. Moral experience, Racine explains, is accounted for in the form of situational units-morally problematic situations. These units are, in turn, theorized as actionable and participatory building blocks of moral existence mapping to mechanisms of episodic memory and to the construction of personal identity. Such explanations pave the way for an understanding of the social and psychological mechanisms of the awareness and neglect of morally problematic situations as well as of the imaginative ethical deliberation needed to respond to these situations. Deliberative wisdom is explained as an engaged and ongoing learning process about human flourishing.

By: Eric Racine
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262551618
ISBN 10: 0262551616
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 13 May 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction and Overview 1 Situated Moral Agency and the Ethical Life 2 Deliberative Wisdom and Human Flourishing 3 Situated Moral Experience 4 Morally Problematic Situations: Primary Objects of Moral Experience and Ethics 5 Morally Problematic Situations: Their Open-Ended Nature 6 Morally Problematic Situations: Their Experiential Nature 7 Morally Problematic Situations: Actionable and Participatory Units of Situational Insight 8 Moral and Ethical Awareness 9 Barriers to Moral Awareness and Gateways to Ethical Awareness 10 Scenario-Based Ethical Deliberation and Ethical Imagination 11 Key Moments in Ethical Deliberation 12 Ethical Enactments 13 Evaluating Ethical Enactments Conclusion Notes References Index

Eric Racine is Director of the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit and Full Research Professor at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute. He also holds appointments at the University of Montreal (Medicine, Preventive and Social Medicine, Bioethics) and McGill University (Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Medicine).

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